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GALVANIG SPECTACLES.

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Leiters .Patent No. 78,534, dated Jmie 2, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT I N GALVANIG SPEGTAGLES.

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TO ALIi WHOM I'I MAY CON CERN:

'Befit known that I, JUDAH MOSES', ofthe city of Hartford, in the county of Hartford, and State oi' Con. nccticuv; have invented a new and improved Electro-Galvanic Spectacles; and IA do hereby'declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactrdescription of the same, referencebein'g had tothe accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification. i

My invention consists in the combination, with the temples or front of a'pair of spectacles, of an electro.. galvanic battery or batteries arranged in such relation thereto that an electrical current may be produced, whereby a person is enabled to apply electricity to thencrves of the head and obtain the therapeutic effects thereof; `In the accompanying drawing- Figure l is a plan View of-a simplc form of my invention.

l Figure 2 is a sectional view of one templeof a pair of spectacles, Ashowing an insuleted'rivet'connecting s. voltaic pile thereto.

Figure 3 is a crosssection ofthevoltaic pile, taken on the plane of the line :v x'.

Figure 4, in red, is a. modification of my invention. i

A A designate the bows or temples or a pair of spectacles, which are jointed to the front,'B, in any suitable manner. In iig. 1 the said temples consist of a number cfsteel wires, and in tig. 3A of a'silver tube. A'nyt suitable mode of constructingA the temples and front of a pair'cf spectacles which will permit the' carryingout ofmy invention may be adopted.

4obtain excellent therapeutic results;

tially as and l'or the purposes 'herein specified.

To the outer end of each temple or bow I secure a voltaic pile, which, in the example shownkcousists of alternate plates of zinc, c, and platinum, I, separated by cloth, c, which may be saturatedin brine or acidwater, and dried before being adjusted, the inneiplate, or that which is to rcst against the head beingzinc on the one temple, thus constituting the positive pole of the battery, and that on thev other temple next the head being platinum, thus constituting the negative pole of the battery.' These voltaic piles are secured to 4the temple, in .the present instance, by a rivet provided with an insulated cud, where it rests against the head of the person who wears the spectacles.

The bows or .temples of the spectacles are made of such length as to bring their ends, and consequently the voltaic piles, between the external part of the ear andthe head, and there being no hair at this spot, the voltaic piles will rest against the skin, and at the same time be concealed.

A'.Iho moisture ot the head or perspiration coming in contact with the voltaic piles, and especially so when it is enough inquantity to meisten thc cloth between the platesoi metal, is suiiicient to create a decided electrical currentkwhich necessarily affects the nerves of the head, inasmuch as it is between the poles ofthe battery.

. I do not liuiit iny invention to thc employment, in combination with a pair of spectacles, of any particular kind of battery. Ivhave illustrated the voltaic battery, considering it the one most easily applied. I might name many batteries which could be connected to the spectacles in various ways and insure the result sought, namely, the passing of'an electricaly current through the metal of the spectacles, so as to operate with all ofits therapeutic eiiccts upon ther capital nerves. And the voltaic pile orR other battery may be connected with the front of the spectacles, say on the nose-piecc, as shown in red in fig. 4, and used either withmor without the batteries on the temples. In the former casewo should have a more powerful battery, und inthe latter case the eicct would be particularly-upon the olfactory nerves. A

It it should be desired tc increase the effect-oi' the voltaic battery above describcd,-thc'two piles can beimmorscd in brine orucid water before the spectacles are applied to the head; or a receptacle, containing brine oracid water, may bc attached to the -battcries,`so' as to keepthe piles moist all the while, and thus increase the cll'cct of the battery;

The honecial'actiou upon the nervous vsystem obtained by a proper application of electricity is so 'well known at the present ytime that it is notnecessary hereto enter into a discussibn ofthe subject suiice it tfo say that by applying an electrical current to the nerves of thehead, through the medium of a pair of spectacles, I

What l claiui as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is` i "lhcooxnbinaiion, with the temples or front of a pair of spectacles, of an electric battery or batteries, so arranged and connected therewith that an electrical current may be caused to pass through the same, substan- JUDAH MOSES.

Witnesses A. D, Ausnm., M. M. Lxvmcs'rort. 

